Episode 154 - EGP+
In this episode Tony and Dennis do some final follow-up on Chicago Pinball Expo 2021, talk about the Cactus Canyon Remake SE+ version, and talk about Stern's production predictions in 2022. In video...
Highlights
- Chicago Pinball Expo livestreamed seminars for free while charging $60 to attend in person
- Half the free play pinball machines at Expo were being packed up and removed at 5 PM on Saturday
- Heist is the best P3 game Multimorphic has released to date
- Multimorphic P3 Heist convinced several people to purchase P3 platforms at Expo
- Cactus Canyon remake had 1,250 LE units announced at Expo
- Expo tournament had multiple organizational failures including broken machines, changed start times, and bracket issues
- Texas Pinball Festival has better machine selection and curation than Expo
- Ricochet pinball-themed watch by Ryan Claytor will become permanent collection item at Mr. Jones Watches after limited run
Notable quotes
“Heist, that is by far the best P3 game I have ever played...there's been nothing before heist that I would consider a reason to purchase a P3”
“Heist is very much the type of game P3 needs. Heist is an actual reason to buy P3”
“It basically came out in the pandemic. Because I think that's a game that could move some of their units. I'm not willing to pay $10,000 for Heist, but in this current market, I think there are people that would.”
“if your tournament ran four hours long before you finished women's finals, you better make some changes next year and don't just think it was a fluke because it was your poor planning”
“If you want the tournament to be taken seriously, you need to run it with a degree of professionalism. It's not the tournament's obligation to accommodate people's alcoholism.”
“Whoever did that, that was a good set up...the arcade games were impressive...they worked”
“The vendor area I thought was pretty impressive. It was the free play area that was abysmal”
“The rules made a lot of sense...the way they used the screen with the pop-ups of the characters was a good way to kind of distract from them not like fully animating a bunch of stuff”
Entities
- Galloping Ghost Arcade· company
- Mr. Jones Watches· company
- Chicago Pinball Expo· event
- Pinberg· event
- ReplayFX· event
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- Cactus Canyon Remake· game
- Castlevania· game
- Ghost in the Shell· game
- Greek Gods· game
- Heist· game
- Sonic Spinball· game
- Colin McAlpine· person
- Dennis· person
- Joe Engelberth· person
- Ken Walker· person
- Michael W.· person
- Ron Hallett· person
- Ryan Claytor· person
- Tom Graff· person
- Tony· person
- Travis Murray· person
- Multimorphic P3· product
- Ricochet Watch· product
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